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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 alternative science Jan 28, 2008
Provocative, fun to read.
Even if the mainstream science disagrees - consider it a scifi book.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Horrific! Jan 03, 2008
No empirical backing? This guy went to Harvard???? Must've been to stack books or mop floors, because there is not one spec of sound scientific method contained in this publication. Every good researcher knows that theory is based upon a grounding of empirical findings. No one would ever develop a theory of a literal geographic flat earth now that a spherical earth has been demonstrated. ...UNLESS you call it fantasy, NOT scientific truth.
And where the heck did the graphs and charts come from? Which studies produced those results? If that reflects empirical research why not cite your sources??? This work totally ignores how research arises out of a community of research and researchers.
This is why most well-grounded scientific research gets reviewed in blind peer-reviewed journals!
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
insufficient Jan 02, 2008
The author is comptetent in evolutionary psychology and comparative psychology, and tries to create basic models in a cognitive science kind of approach. However, the models are frequently insuficient. The most important problem of the book is that the author engages in many semantical disputes ("love after 33 months is just mistakenly called love, it is really affection"). Another setback is the assumption of the Aquatic Ape Theory, the theory that states that humans had an "aquatic detour" in its evolutionary history.
The book reads like a dissertation from a graduate student rather than a significant work on emotions and/or evolutionary psychology.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Hilarious Jan 02, 2008
This little batch of evo-psych babble is fun for the whole family. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll make grandiose statements with a startlingly flimsy grasp of what you're talking about.
I love the author information on amazon, too: "Graduated from Harvard University" hehe, good for him ;)
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Good book if you can re-define words while reading Nov 25, 2007
Yes, the contents of the book include many "absurd" assertions; this is because the author uses his formal definitions for emotions which differ from the mainstream usage of the words. For example, "Love" is defined strictly as "harming [oneself] to help another".
If the reader accepts the author's definitions and conceptualizes the contents accordingly, the book does describe a provisionally accurate evolutionary basis for many human emotions as of about several thousand years ago (the book does not account for the gradual effect of modern human societies on human evolution).
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